In preparation for the Magna Carta 800th anniversary celebrations, over 60 students from Royal Holloway, University of London's Community Action scheme have been busy this week, tidying up Egham High Street.

As the world marks Rare Disease Day tomorrow (Saturday 28 February), Royal Holloway is welcoming secondary school pupils and sufferers with their families and carers today to learn about the world-leading research that is taking place to develop new therapies.

Internationally renowned chamber orchestra the London Mozart Players will join students from the Department of Music at Royal Holloway, University of London on stage for a unique side-by-side performance on Sunday 1 March.

The lecture centres on the 1691 trial of a self-confessed Livonian werewolf, Matthias "Old Thiess", and engages with the eminent Italian historian Carlo Ginzburg, who thought the case was comparable to the Benandanti, members of a north Italian agrarian cult who refused the accusations of witchcraft and claimed to have undertaken ecstatic journeys each year to battle witches for the coming year's harvest. The argument touches on the relation of the religious imaginary to social dynamics, the problems of comparative method, and the way a scholar's life history can condition both his interests and his perspective. For further information please click on the link above.

Graphene has caused much excitement since its first isolation in 2004 due to the extraordinary properties that occur when a material is taken down to a 2-dimensional sheet just one atom thick. We will look at ways to make graphene from using bits of sticky tape through to mass production, the properties of this material, its potential applications and the new generation of functional materials which are being built atomic layer by atomic layer. For further information please click on the link above.